Edit:"I would like us to renew our complete commitment to ensuring that these atrocities [highlight=yellow]will no longer take place in our midst"

Clearly I'm unfamiliar with this sites hideously complicate formatting malarkey, but I'm following that guardian article like flies on a resurrected haddock. Now cop for this:

"The church recognises the sins of some of her members: the sufferings, the experiences and the pain of minors who were abused sexually by priests. It is a sin that shames us,” Francis wrote in the letter.

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It all springs from their anti-female position that is NOT supported by the Bible at all which springs from wanting to spend as little money as possible on the hired help.

Its always the money.

Real Name: bobbo the existential pragmatic evangelical anti-theist and Class Warrior.Asking: What is the most good for the most people?Sample Issue: Should the Feds provide all babies with free diapers?

Ummmm..... of course..... the Bible IS anti-female. Just not on the point the Catholics take that they can't be part of the controlling hierarchy.

Pros and Cons. Exclude women..... and you are going to get Homos. Its a fact: look it up.

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I'm more interested in Cardinal Law-unto-himself, who continues to get nice meals served to him in the Vatican, when he ought to be eating off a tin tray in a Massachusetts prison. But I don't blame the Pope. He probably can't legally kick the guy out. One of the anomalies of having a religion coterminus with a secular state is that one can have it both ways. On the one hand, we are a state and expect to be invited to diplomatic events and receive ambassadors. On the other hand, we are a religion, and you can't expect us to enter into degrading secular affairs such as extradition treaties.

Within what Garry Will calls the Vatican's structures of deceit, Pope Francis is doing his level best. They have come a long way, and will no longer seek to shield priests from the secular arm when they are accused of crimes. And at least they have now decided that capital punishment is unchristian. (When I was being instructed in the catechism, long, long ago, when the mass was still in Latin, that was one of the loopholes in the Fifth Commandment: the state had the right to kill criminals. I'm glad they've moved on. Not that this will bring me back, but we've all got to get along with one another in this world, and that helps.)

"My firm belief that Dwight Eisenhower is a dedicated conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy is based on an accumulation of detailed evidence so extensive and so palpable that it seems to me to put this conviction beyond any reasonable doubt."

Robert Welch (1899—1985), founder of the John Birch Society (1958), on July 11, 1960

Nope, a typo. Should have been "coterminous" (as a lapsed Catholic, I just can't free myself of Latin spellings!)

"My firm belief that Dwight Eisenhower is a dedicated conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy is based on an accumulation of detailed evidence so extensive and so palpable that it seems to me to put this conviction beyond any reasonable doubt."

Robert Welch (1899—1985), founder of the John Birch Society (1958), on July 11, 1960

Upton_O_Goode wrote:Nope, a typo. Should have been "coterminous" (as a lapsed Catholic, I just can't free myself of Latin spellings!)

Thanks for correcting the new word I learned. Aye it's a rum do all right, this progressive new pope is harbouring two of the biggest bastards to ever walk the earth. Is this the same pope who performs exorcisms? Dragging the catholic church forward to the sixteenth century.

"My firm belief that Dwight Eisenhower is a dedicated conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy is based on an accumulation of detailed evidence so extensive and so palpable that it seems to me to put this conviction beyond any reasonable doubt."

Robert Welch (1899—1985), founder of the John Birch Society (1958), on July 11, 1960